Mudlarking 68 - Rain and Empires
Dec. 1st, 2025 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaIt was raining so I went for a coffee while waiting for the rain to stop. It eventually did and I walked down onto Ernie’s Beach. It started raining again and I hid underneath Waterloo Bridge for a while. Not pleasant conditions for mudlarking.
Finds included:
Two pieces of Empire Ware. Empire Porcelain Co were based in Hanley and active from 1896 to 1967. https://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/389.htm
One of these pieces is from the 1930s as Empire conveniently stamped their pottery with the month and year around that time. The 3 is quite visible.
Three pieces of Express Dairies.
It seems it was the river’s birthday. Happy birthday, River Thames!
A lid from something? Or a holder of something. It looks quite new somehow, so could be some kind of religious offering.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
Finds included:
Two pieces of Empire Ware. Empire Porcelain Co were based in Hanley and active from 1896 to 1967. https://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/389.htm
One of these pieces is from the 1930s as Empire conveniently stamped their pottery with the month and year around that time. The 3 is quite visible.
Three pieces of Express Dairies.
It seems it was the river’s birthday. Happy birthday, River Thames!
A lid from something? Or a holder of something. It looks quite new somehow, so could be some kind of religious offering.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)